Word: drinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considerable difficulty was encountered by the students in making their classifications. Chief among these was the definition of terms. What is a "moderate drinker"? One answer hazarded the opinion, "A moderate drinker is one who never refuses a drink, but never buys one." "A heavy drinker," says the same answer, "demands access to a supply at all times, and keeps himself loaded as often as possible". The writer estimates this class to be from 2 to 5 per cent...
...keeps liquor in his room or club except for special occasions. Most buy what they want and consume it on the spot in toto. The result is that when the Harvard student drinks at all he is very apt to be drunk, whether he is an excessive drinker or not. This makes the Harvard situation difficult to classify...
...Moderate drinkers, 45 per cent (guess), do not take some every day, but do spend evenings in drinking, but do not necessarily get drunk. The moderate drinker rarely knows how to drink. Heavy drinkers, 5 per cent, may drink daily and have drinking parties very often...
...nights of Prentiss. Ethnology, Scotch-English- Irish-German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator, Cabinet officer, Ambassador and the author of textbooks on world economics. Habits, excellent; a moderate drinker before 1917, but dry as a bone ever since; a fairly regular churchgoer. Family, the same wife he has had all along, and sturdy children. Personal relationships, liked by every one; known affectionately as 'old man' to Lodge, La Follette, McAdoo, Smith, Coolidge and Dawes...
Premier Poincare-described as a ."sweet-water-drinker who abstains . from French wine, much though he admires it"-descended precipitately. from the. water-wagon, while delivering a speech in the Chamber of Deputies...